| Rank |
Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
|
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk.
|
Nature
|
2011
|
13.25
|
|
2
|
Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project.
|
PLoS Genet
|
2011
|
3.07
|
|
3
|
Fine mapping of the association with obesity at the FTO locus in African-derived populations.
|
Hum Mol Genet
|
2010
|
2.48
|
|
4
|
Cysteine supplementation improves the erythrocyte glutathione synthesis rate in children with severe edematous malnutrition.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2002
|
2.03
|
|
5
|
Genome-wide association of anthropometric traits in African- and African-derived populations.
|
Hum Mol Genet
|
2010
|
1.90
|
|
6
|
Income, education, and blood pressure in adults in Jamaica, a middle-income developing country.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2003
|
1.84
|
|
7
|
Association between blood pressure and resting energy expenditure independent of body size.
|
Hypertension
|
2004
|
1.62
|
|
8
|
Ethnic differences in arterial responses and inflammatory markers in Afro-Caribbean and Caucasian subjects.
|
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol
|
2005
|
1.49
|
|
9
|
Under- and overreporting of energy is related to obesity, lifestyle factors and food group intakes in Jamaican adults.
|
Public Health Nutr
|
2004
|
1.46
|
|
10
|
An international comparative study of blood pressure in populations of European vs. African descent.
|
BMC Med
|
2005
|
1.38
|
|
11
|
Rapid assessment of genetic ancestry in populations of unknown origin by genome-wide genotyping of pooled samples.
|
PLoS Genet
|
2010
|
1.14
|
|
12
|
Body size and blood pressure: an analysis of Africans and the African diaspora.
|
Epidemiology
|
2008
|
1.08
|
|
13
|
Losing the war against obesity: the need for a developmental perspective.
|
Sci Transl Med
|
2011
|
1.07
|
|
14
|
The acute-phase protein response to infection in edematous and nonedematous protein-energy malnutrition.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2002
|
1.07
|
|
15
|
Energy expenditure in adults living in developing compared with industrialized countries: a meta-analysis of doubly labeled water studies.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2010
|
1.04
|
|
16
|
Angiotensin I-converting enzyme polymorphisms, ACE level and blood pressure among Nigerians, Jamaicans and African-Americans.
|
Eur J Hum Genet
|
2004
|
1.02
|
|
17
|
Protein metabolism in severe childhood malnutrition.
|
Ann Trop Paediatr
|
2008
|
1.02
|
|
18
|
In vivo rates of erythrocyte glutathione synthesis in adults with sickle cell disease.
|
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab
|
2006
|
1.00
|
|
19
|
Factors affecting study efficiency and item non-response in health surveys in developing countries: the Jamaica national healthy lifestyle survey.
|
BMC Med Res Methodol
|
2007
|
0.98
|
|
20
|
Protein kinetic differences between children with edematous and nonedematous severe childhood undernutrition in the fed and postabsorptive states.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2005
|
0.98
|
|
21
|
Geographical variation in relationships between parental body size and offspring phenotype at birth.
|
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
|
2006
|
0.97
|
|
22
|
Lipid kinetic differences between children with kwashiorkor and those with marasmus.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2006
|
0.96
|
|
23
|
Rapid increases in obesity in Jamaica, compared to Nigeria and the United States.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2008
|
0.94
|
|
24
|
Asymptomatic bacteriuria in sickle cell disease: a cross-sectional study.
|
BMC Infect Dis
|
2006
|
0.94
|
|
25
|
UGT1A1 variation and gallstone formation in sickle cell disease.
|
Blood
|
2004
|
0.92
|
|
26
|
Geographical variation in neonatal phenotype.
|
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand
|
2006
|
0.92
|
|
27
|
Non-fatal violence-related injuries in Kingston, Jamaica: a preventable drain on resources.
|
Inj Control Saf Promot
|
2002
|
0.91
|
|
28
|
Sulfur amino acid metabolism in children with severe childhood undernutrition: methionine kinetics.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2006
|
0.90
|
|
29
|
Report on the 2nd World Congress on Fetal Origins of Adult Disease, Brighton, U.K., June 7-10, 2003.
|
Pediatr Res
|
2004
|
0.89
|
|
30
|
The role of inheritance and environment in predisposition to vascular disease in people of African descent.
|
J Am Coll Cardiol
|
2006
|
0.87
|
|
31
|
Cytokine levels and profiles in children related to sickle cell disease and asthma status.
|
J Interferon Cytokine Res
|
2011
|
0.85
|
|
32
|
Glycine production in severe childhood undernutrition.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2006
|
0.85
|
|
33
|
Sulfur amino acid metabolism in children with severe childhood undernutrition: cysteine kinetics.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2006
|
0.85
|
|
34
|
The vascular effects of metabolic impairment clusters in subjects of different ethnicities.
|
Atherosclerosis
|
2007
|
0.84
|
|
35
|
Glutathione S-transferase polymorphisms may be associated with risk of oedematous severe childhood malnutrition.
|
Br J Nutr
|
2006
|
0.83
|
|
36
|
Relation between liver fat content and the rate of VLDL apolipoprotein B-100 synthesis in children with protein-energy malnutrition.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2005
|
0.83
|
|
37
|
Response of splanchnic and whole-body leucine kinetics to treatment of children with edematous protein-energy malnutrition accompanied by infection.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2002
|
0.83
|
|
38
|
Arginine flux and intravascular nitric oxide synthesis in severe childhood undernutrition.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2007
|
0.83
|
|
39
|
Dietary cysteine is used more efficiently by children with severe acute malnutrition with edema compared with those without edema.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2011
|
0.82
|
|
40
|
Commentary: 'serum-cholesterol, diet, and coronary heart-disease in Africans and Asians in Uganda' by AG Shaper and KW Jones.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2012
|
0.81
|
|
41
|
Supplementation with aromatic amino acids improves leucine kinetics but not aromatic amino acid kinetics in infants with infection, severe malnutrition, and edema.
|
J Nutr
|
2004
|
0.81
|
|
42
|
Non-exercise physical activity in agricultural and urban people.
|
Urban Stud
|
2011
|
0.80
|
|
43
|
Nutrient intakes and dysglycaemia in populations of West African origin.
|
Br J Nutr
|
2011
|
0.80
|
|
44
|
The efficacy of detecting variants with small effects on the Affymetrix 6.0 platform using pooled DNA.
|
Hum Genet
|
2011
|
0.79
|
|
45
|
An international matched cohort study of the contribution of metabolic impairments to subclinical atherosclerosis in United Kingdom and Jamaican African-Caribbeans.
|
Atherosclerosis
|
2007
|
0.79
|
|
46
|
Nutritional repletion of children with severe acute malnutrition does not affect VLDL apolipoprotein B-100 synthesis rate.
|
J Nutr
|
2012
|
0.78
|
|
47
|
Childhood malnutrition is associated with a reduction in the total melanin content of scalp hair.
|
Br J Nutr
|
2007
|
0.78
|
|
48
|
Dietary supplementation with aromatic amino acids increases protein synthesis in children with severe acute malnutrition.
|
J Nutr
|
2014
|
0.76
|
|
49
|
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D AND INTACT PARATHYROID HORMONE LEVELS ACROSS LATITUDE AMONG ADULTS WITH AFRICAN ANCESTRY.
|
Endocr Pract
|
2016
|
0.76
|
|
50
|
Polymorphisms in genes involved in folate metabolism as risk factors for oedematous severe childhood malnutrition: a hypothesis-generating study.
|
Ann Trop Paediatr
|
2006
|
0.75
|
|
51
|
Effects of randomized supplementation of methionine or alanine on cysteine and glutathione production during the early phase of treatment of children with edematous malnutrition.
|
Am J Clin Nutr
|
2014
|
0.75
|
|
52
|
Tyrosine requirement during the rapid catch-up growth phase of recovery from severe childhood undernutrition.
|
Br J Nutr
|
2010
|
0.75
|
|
53
|
Richer but fatter: the unintended consequences of microcredit financing on household health and expenditure in Jamaica.
|
Trop Med Int Health
|
2014
|
0.75
|
|
54
|
Application of stable isotopic techniques in the prevention of degenerative diseases like obesity and NIDDM in developing societies.
|
Food Nutr Bull
|
2002
|
0.75
|
|
55
|
25-Hydroxyvitamin D and blood pressure: a plateau effect in adults with African ancestry living at different latitudes.
|
J Hypertens
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
56
|
Association of maternal blood pressure in pregnancy with blood pressure of their offspring through adolescence.
|
J Perinat Med
|
2015
|
0.75
|